Head-To-Head Contrast: Sekisui House (SKHSY) versus Its Competitors

Sekisui House (OTCMKTS:SKHSY) is one of 150 publicly-traded companies in the “Household Durables” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its peers? We will compare Sekisui House to similar businesses based on the strength of its earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for Sekisui House and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Sekisui House	0	0	0	1	4.00
Sekisui House Competitors	1801	7410	8145	315	2.39

As a group, “Household Durables” companies have a potential upside of 48.25%. Given Sekisui House’s peers higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Sekisui House has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Sekisui House and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Sekisui House	$28.07 billion	$1.56 billion	8.73
Sekisui House Competitors	$5.33 billion	$320.74 million	8.51

Sekisui House has higher revenue and earnings than its peers. Sekisui House is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Profitability

This table compares Sekisui House and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Sekisui House	6.15%	11.16%	4.87%
Sekisui House Competitors	-2.67%	-17.12%	1.19%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

0.0% of Sekisui House shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.6% of shares of all “Household Durables” companies are held by institutional investors. 18.3% of shares of all “Household Durables” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Dividends

Sekisui House pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Sekisui House pays out 27.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Household Durables” companies pay a dividend yield of 4.2% and pay out 32.5% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Volatility and Risk

Sekisui House has a beta of 0.4, meaning that its share price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sekisui House’s peers have a beta of 1.76, meaning that their average share price is 76% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Sekisui House beats its peers on 9 of the 15 factors compared.

About Sekisui House

Sekisui House, Ltd. designs, constructs, and contracts built-to-order detached houses in Japan and internationally. The company operates through Custom Detached Houses, Rental Housing, Architectural/Civil Engineering, Remodeling, Real Estate Management Fees, Houses For Sale, Condominiums, Urban Redevelopment, and Overseas segments. It also engages in contracting of design and construction of custom detached houses, rental housing, office building, commercial buildings, and other properties; construction of reinforced concrete rental housing and commercial buildings; contracting of design and construction of civil engineering works; remodeling and renovation of houses; subleasing, management, operation, and brokerage of real estate; sale of houses and residential land; and sales of condominiums. Sekisui House, Ltd. was incorporated in 1929 and is headquartered in Osaka, Japan.